Resilience and Continuity Lead (APAC)

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Whats the role

The Resilience and Continuity team is responsible for the design and delivery of Bloombergs Business Continuity Management (BCM) program which supports the Firms ability to continue operating effectively in the event of business disruptions. The team is part of the Bloomberg Security Operations department that oversees physical security safety enterprise resilience and business continuity.

In this role you will have the unique opportunity to collaborate with business areas across Bloomberg and will operate as a part of a global team of business continuity experts working to ensure Bloomberg is prepared and ready to manage business disruptions effectively. As a Resilience and Continuity Lead for the APAC region you will focus on building preparedness within APAC embedding the global program and providing expertise on business continuity and operational resilience regulations.

Well trust you to:

• Drive the Global BCM programs implementation in the APAC region - maintaining strong relationships with regional business leaders and gaining an understanding of their business evolving resilience and continuity needs.
• Lead on the Global BCM programs identification and insight to stakeholders on emerging regulatory requirements
• Lead on the BC programs development and execution of BC testing and exercising efforts within the APAC region
• Lead on the identification adoption and implementation of industry best practice from across business continuity and operational resilience topics
• Support the business in the development and regular review of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and recovery strategy documentation.
• Collaborate consistently with SMEs in Operational Resilience Engineering the Chief Risk Office Legal and Compliance and other domains to build familiarity on enterprise-wide strategic objectives and resilience requirements.
• Consult on design and implement enhancements to our BC management system to better enable the delivery of resilience and continuity priorities.
• Collaborate with various internal support and operations teams to identify and assess threats and risks that have the potential to escalate to operational impacting incidents.

Youll need to have:

• Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in business continuity management crisis/incident management and/or enterprise governance risk and compliance.
• Experience in coordinating and delivering testing and exercising for business continuity and/or operational resilience purposes.
• Strong understanding of APAC financial systems regulations and regimes.
• Prior work experience in a large organization implementing global standards policies and procedures.
• Highly developed relationship management and partnership skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Strong project management problem solving and facilitation skills.
• Proven track record of leading projects involving cross-functional teams.

Wed love to see:

• Experience in drafting responses to requests for information from assessors and regulators on a timely and satisfactory manner.
• Knowledge of the operational and technical infrastructure of financial firms and the financial markets.